Polytene chromosomes are large chromosomes which have thousands of DNA strands. They provide a high level of function in certain tissues such as salivary...

determination Haplodiploid sex-determination system Polytene chromosome Protamine Neochromosome Parasitic chromosome Hammond CM, Strømme CB, Huang H, Patel DJ,...

recombination suppression. Originally, these inversions were noted in polytene chromosomes within the salivary glands of heterozygous Drosophila melanogaster...

technique, they studied the polytene chromosomes and discovered that all the wild populations were polymorphic for chromosomal inversions. All the flies...

that the two chromosome morphs are adapted to different habitats. The detailed study of chromosome banding in insects with polytene chromosomes can reveal...

(July 1982). "Immunological method for mapping genes on drosophila polytene chromosomes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States...

is said to show trisomy. Every polysomy is a type of aneuploidy. polytene chromosome position effect Any effect on the expression or functionality of...

on a chromosome during the prophase of meiosis and mitosis. Giant banded (Polytene) chromosomes resulting from the replication of the chromosomes and the...

technique they studied the polytene chromosomes and discovered that the wild populations were polymorphic for chromosomal inversions. All the flies look...

polymorphic for structural rearrangements of the chromosomes. In Dipterous flies with polytene chromosomes... the figure is somewhere between 60 and 80 percent...